1-i THK BIRDS OF SPRINC.KI KI.O AND VICINITY. 



specimens here clurino^ the past t\veiit>- years. Althon.^li I 

 have no positive evidence, still I have little doubt that it 

 occasionally breeds here. 



221. Fulica americana Gmel. Amkricax Coot. A 

 conimoii autumn visitor, l)ut rare in the spriiio;. 



222. Crymophilus fulicarius (Ivinn.). Rkd Phal- 

 AKOPK. Accidental visitor: on the 30th of September, 1S93, 

 William H. Lee captured two out of a flock of a dozen near 

 Chicopee ; the.se are the .specimens in the Mu.seum of Natural 

 Hi, story. 



223. Phalaropus lobatus (lyinn. ). Northern 

 Phalarope. Accidental vi.sitor ; one was taken in Ware, 

 October 13, 1873. (See Bulletin Nutthall Ornithological 

 Club, \"ol. 5, page 122.) 



228. Philohela minor (Gmel.). American Wood- 

 cock. Regular spring and autumn xi.'^itor, and a tolerably 

 common summer resident. Fifteen \-ears ago, woodcock bred 

 regularly and abundantly, but about 1887 they almost ceased 

 to do .so, and only occasionally could a brood be found here ; 

 this condition continued for about a decade, but during the 

 last three j^ears they have again been more numerous as sum- 

 mer residents. 



230. Gallinago delicata (Ord.). Wilson's Snipe. 

 Common spring and autumn \isitor, and I have known of 

 its being here both in midsummer and midwinter. 



231. Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.). Dowitcher. 

 Rare s])ring and autumn migrant, not as common as formerly. 



234. Tringa canutus lyinn. Knot. Accidental vi.sitor; 

 a number of years ago I captured one the la.st of August, 

 which is the only instance known to me of its presence here. 



